Overview
- Examining Court No. 3 in Valladolid sent inspector chief Luis Fernández to pretrial detention without bail and did the same for five of the other detainees.
- Seven people were detained in the operation, one of whom was released after an earlier statement at the police station, according to ABC’s account of the court order.
- Agents from Madrid’s Internal Affairs unit led the arrests on Thursday under an investigation opened earlier in 2025 and authorized by the local examining court.
- Searches in Valladolid, Renedo de Esgueva and Arroyo de la Encomienda recovered 40 kilograms of cocaine stored in suitcases, with none found at the inspector’s home, ABC reported.
- Authorities also seized more than €100,000 from a BBVA safe-deposit box linked to the inspector, and the regional police chief publicly condemned him while declining to detail specific charges; one co-defendant, Iván V., has ties to the 2022 Santovenia double homicide case.